Catalog Category: works with Community/Audience Voices

Community Songbook (free download)

Description The community songbook is a collection of songs and short pieces that I’ve written over the years for communities. This collection is licensed under Creative Commons, and is available for free download (see sidebar to download) This volume contains: More songs will be added as they are written. You do not need any permission/clearance … Read more

We Are Love

Program Notes original text by Melissa Studdard (all info coming soon) Recording (see video above) Text View/download the full text of We Are Love here: Special Performance Requirements We Are Love is a work designed for two types of choirs to perform together: a regular SATB chorus and a community chorus. While the community part … Read more

Listen

Program Notes When I worked with Urban Voices Project, a choir on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, I met a man named Brian Palmer. He used to say, “One act of love, I know for sure, is to listen.” We lost Brian a few years later, suddenly and unexpectedly. And as I struggled to … Read more

interglow

Program Notes Forthcoming Recording (see above) Text movement 1: All alone, together. movement 2:text by Rebecca Gayle Howell Leave your worry Leave your sorrow Enter warm light Glowing child-like Leave the shadow Leave tomorrow You are, we are Breathing, now, our breath Special Performance Requirements This piece is designed for engagement. It requires performers to … Read more

See Me

Program Notes forthcoming Recording See video above (beginning at 4:10) Special Performance Requirements This piece is written specifically for a combination of professional and community singers. It is designed to create a warm performance environment for those who might have never been on a stage before — by partnering with singers who are very comfortable … Read more

Take What You Need (Hymnal Style Chorale Version)

SKIP TO INFORMATION ON THIS VERSION Take What You Need is more than just a piece of music. It is a warm, safe, equitable space, where musicians and community can connect with one another, where stories can come forward, and where the foundations of a relationship can be built and nurtured. Bring Take What You … Read more

Take What You Need – Double Choir (no instruments)

SKIP TO INFORMATION ON THIS VERSION Take What You Need is more than just a piece of music. It is a warm, safe, equitable space, where musicians and community can connect with one another, where stories can come forward, and where the foundations of a relationship can be built and nurtured. Bring Take What You … Read more

Take What You Need (Double Choir and Piano)

SKIP TO INFORMATION ON THIS VERSION Take What You Need is more than just a piece of music. It is a warm, safe, equitable space, where musicians and community can connect with one another, where stories can come forward, and where the foundations of a relationship can be built and nurtured. Bring Take What You … Read more

Take What You Need (double choir + string quintet)

SKIP TO INFORMATION ON THIS VERSION Take What You Need is more than just a piece of music. It is a warm, safe, equitable space, where musicians and community can connect with one another, where stories can come forward, and where the foundations of a relationship can be built and nurtured. Bring Take What You … Read more